Aim

Course description

Topics

1. The Fisheries – Why are they important?
   • Food source - Food security and safety
   • Social Issues –
     1. Who fish and has the right to fish,
     2. Class, gender, and power
   • Income, livelihood and economy
   • Political relevant - sovereignty
   • Ecosystem impact
2. The Fisheries as systems
   • A system approach to the fisheries - Diversity, Complexity, Dynamics, and Scale or how fish, people and society are linked together.
   • The diverse actors in the fisheries,
   • The challenge
     How to create ecologically, economically and social sustainable fisheries?
3. Why do we manage the fisheries?
   • Open access and The tragedy of the commons
   • Towards the Law of the Sea
   • International, Regional, and National institutions
   • From unregulated to regulated Nature and Society
4. How do we manage the fisheries?
   • Management regimes – What is a regime
     • Centralized management - case
     • Participatory (co-) management - case
     • Self management - case
     • Market based -cases
   • Management approaches and institutional challenges
     • Single stock - Norwegian Cod
     • Multi spices fisheries
     • Straddling stocks - Tuna
     • Ecosystem Approach
5. Systems of rights in the fisheries
   • Traditional rights
   • Indigenous rights
   • Rights vs social justic
6. Systems of knowledge in the fisheries
   • Traditional knowledge - case
   • Formalized knowledge - case
   • Integrating different knowledge systems – case
7. Solving problems and conflicts in fisheries management
   • Sources and consequences
   • How can they be solved?
   • Making fisheries management policy and plans
     Case - Forvaltningsplan for Barentshavet?

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